{"id":37556,"date":"2019-06-18T21:07:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T21:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37556"},"modified":"2019-06-18T21:07:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T21:07:50","slug":"happy-birthday-sir-paul-may-you-keep-on-making-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37556","title":{"rendered":"Happy birthday, Sir Paul; may you keep on making music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SirPaul%20%23TheBeatles%20%23Astrodome&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Paul_McCartney_in_October_2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-37464\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Paul_McCartney_in_October_2018-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Paul_McCartney_in_October_2018-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Paul_McCartney_in_October_2018-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Paul_McCartney_in_October_2018-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Paul_McCartney_in_October_2018.jpg 1110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t normally use this blog to comment on people&#8217;s birthdays, other than perhaps members of my immediate family.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll do so briefly here by noting that Sir Paul McCartney is turning 77 years young today.<\/p>\n<p>I am mentioning Sir Paul mainly because I was among the 40,000 or so fans who cheered him on Friday night as he sang to us at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, we sang him &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; for good measure. He returned the favor later in the evening when he launched his six-song encore with The Beatles&#8217; classic ditty &#8220;Birthday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sir Paul might be the youngest 77-year-young individual I&#8217;ve ever seen. The man can play music. He plays it well. He plays his bass, guitar, mandolin, ukulele and piano with amazing verve and vigor.<\/p>\n<p>I am just blown away by being able to say I&#8217;ve seen him perform now three times in my life. No. 1 was at Portland&#8217;s Memorial Coliseum in the summer of 1965, when he played for about 30 minutes with The Beatles. No. 2 occurred in 1993 at the Houston Astrodome, when the show went a whole lot longer than it did the first time. No. 3 was just this past week in Arlington.<\/p>\n<p>Paul McCartney &#8212; along with John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr &#8212; helped raise me when I was a kid. Those of you are about my age know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>So, I feel a bit closer to Sir Paul on his 77th birthday than I have before. Happy birthday, Paul.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you are <em>&#8220;going to a party, party.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SirPaul%20%23TheBeatles%20%23Astrodome&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t normally use this blog to comment on people&#8217;s birthdays, other than perhaps members of my immediate family. I&#8217;ll do so briefly here by noting that Sir Paul McCartney is turning 77 years young today. I am mentioning Sir Paul mainly because I was among the 40,000 or so fans who cheered him on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=37556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy birthday, Sir Paul; may you keep on making music<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[7460,1891,2543,5751,3523,3957,4749],"class_list":["post-37556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-local-news","tag-astrodome","tag-george-harrison","tag-john-lennon","tag-memorial-coliseum","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-ringo-starr","tag-the-beatles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37557,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37556\/revisions\/37557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}